Comment by willcarkner
5 hours ago
Volume unit costs matter a lot. What matters less is cost during prototyping and development, where speed to iteration becomes way more important.
5 hours ago
Volume unit costs matter a lot. What matters less is cost during prototyping and development, where speed to iteration becomes way more important.
I absolutely agree, if you have just a few people who are each paid 180k a year sitting around waiting for something to arrive because the low-quantity prototyping vendor is slow, it's not the best use of resources at all. One of the reasons why certain companies spend a lot of money buying their own laser sintering 3D printers for low volume test-fit protoypes in the aerospace industry, or invest in their own small-scale CNC stuff to do similar.